Quotes from George Eliot

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

In every parting there is an image of death.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.